Colin Andrew Sheffield - Images

With a momentous inhalation of the sonic construct surrounding us, Images begins. Conscious full, melodies are now held in a crystal clear dense medium. Sounds are removed from time, they elongate and float. Aural origins are distant and blurred from the pristine forms they now reveal in their new context. Images gently sets thoughts down in a beautiful obfuscated sea. Notes of familiarity swim in faintly heard schools, disappearing under the swells of tranquil turbulence. Wonder and fascination rise from hearing a world so delicately balanced between serenity and tumultuous recoil. The sonic pathway wholesomely encompasses listeners rather than something to be followed from beginning to end. Images breaths out releasing newly oxygenated thoughts into the surrounding world.

Colin Andrew Sheffield brings new sounds to listeners ears with a full length on Elevator Bath. Quickly following the Aufabwegen label release Don't Ever Let Me Know, Images takes stage with eight selections of highly arranged sounds from jazz records. Amazingly, this composition has no jazz vibe at all, other than lingering melodic ghosts faintly wavering in the audible spectrum. Somewhere between tranquil ambience and an explosion of notes in vivid slow motion, Colin Andrew Sheffield pulls the extremes together with graceful skill. Eight selections in various lengths playing like a soundtrack to celestial movement of both enormous bodies and tiny particles. Pageantry repeated in scopes beyond our comprehension. A distant and silent world from any earthly viewpoint, now with majestic sounds for a fully grandiose experience.  

 

Images is an Elevator Bath release in a vinyl edition of three hundred. There are one hundred in clear and two hundred in black. Both versions are currently available from the label. Mastered James Plotkin and photography by Holly Doyel, Images has only been out for just a little over a week. Take the time and give this composition a listen. Beautiful from start to finish.

 

 

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